, 515 



Gregarious, semiimmersed. Peritliecia ovate, black, small, less 

 than J mm. cliam., raising the epidermis into minute, thickly scattered 

 pustules ruptured above by the slightly erunipent, conical ostiola. 

 Asci clavate. Sporidia allantoid. hyaline, 10 t u long. Stylospores in 

 distinct perithecia with longer necks, minute, straight, linear, 5 a long. 



On dead branches of Vaccinium corymbosum, Newfield. X. J. 



This is a very unsatisfactory thing, for though not uncommon, we 

 have never found it mature. 



Cr. mordinata, (B. & C.) 



Sphceria inordinata, B. & C. Grev. |IV, p. 146. 

 Cryptosphizria inordinata, Sacc. Syll. 686, Cke. Syru 4078. 



" Covered by the cuticle which is raised by the subjacent peri- 

 thecia into little prominences which make the whole surface like a 

 rasp. Asci clavate. Sporidia sausage-shaped." 



On Rosa Icevigata, Carolina, 



CRYPTO VALSA, Ces. & De Not 



Schema. Sfer. p, 29. 



Stroma effused or subvalsoid, cortical, but sometimes lignlcolous, 

 more or less blackened within. Perithecia immersed, irregularly scat- 

 tered or subvalsiform-aggregated, ostiola scarcely exserted. Asci 

 polysporous, aparaphysate. Sporidia allantoid, yellowish-hyaline. 

 Spermogonia, when present, cytisporoid. 



Cr. sparsa, E. & E. Proc. Acad. Nat Sci. Phil. July, 1890, p. 224. 



Perithecia with thick, coriaceous walls, black and shining inside, 

 J-| mm. cliam., buried in the inner bark, either scattered singly or 

 oftener in valsoid groups of 3-4, faintly circumscribed, and the bark 

 around and under them more or less blackened, each cluster or single 

 perithecium raising the bark into a little pustule closely embraced by 

 the sublaciniately ruptured epidermis, attenuated above into short 

 necks terminating in more or less distinctly quadrisulcate ostiola erum- 

 pent in a small, pustuliform disk, but scarcely projecting. Asci polyspo- 

 rous, p. sp. 40-50 x 8-10 fj. or, including the slender base, 70-75 p 

 long. Sporidia allantoid, yellowish, moderately curved, with a nucleus 

 in each end. 6-7 x 1| /*.' 



On dead oak limbs, Louisiana (Langlois). 



In the original diagnosis "p. sp." should have been omitted, and, 

 on a reexainination. we find no definite paraphyses. 



